single cut

¹

noun

Jewelry.

1. a simple form of brilliant cut, having eight facets above and eight facets below the girdle, as well as the table, and usually a culet.

single-cut

²

[sing-guhl-kuht]

adjective

1. noting a file having a series of parallel cutting ridges in one direction only.

Word History and Origins

Origin of single cut¹

First recorded in 1825–35